The End of Long-Term Planning

New methodologies of entrepreneurship and innovation coming from the world of technology and startups are still misunderstood and poorly executed.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Build Your Future Wealth on Intangibles

Build Your Future Wealth on Intangibles

The dream of ownership. Owning a home. A car. My generation grew up with the mindset of achieving security by accumulating tangible assets – typically, investments in real estate....

Networking

Why You Are Accumulating LinkedIn Contacts?

Why You Are Accumulating LinkedIn Contacts?

Many people showing off +30K followers or comments like these on their Linkedin profiles do not really understand the fundamental power of networking....

Startup Ecosystem

Don't Get Lured into the Current Startup Ecosystem

Don't Get Lured into the Current Startup Ecosystem

The path to success as defined by top-notch authors radically diverges from the advice and behavior of Startup Gurus, that nowadays control the current Startup ecosystem....

Global Online Course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Global Online Course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

"I WANT TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR, BUT I DON'T HAVE AN IDEA"

You can create a company or new business unit, and the idea is certainly not where to start!

We teach our recognized methodology for creating profitable and scalable businesses in our Entrepreneurship and Innovation Online Course. More than 1300 entrepreneurs, freelancers and businesspeople in 50 countries have graduated from our program.

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Most often, great new ideas do not arise from a single person, but at the intersection of functions or people who have never known each other before

Clayton M. Christensen

No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer.

Steve Blank

One cannot afford to reach the hearts and minds of technology enthusiasts and visionaries.

Geoffrey Moore

Shared activities [. . .] forge ties between diverse individuals by changing their usual patterns of interaction, letting them break out of their prescribed business roles.

Brian Uzzi

In a decentralized organization, there's no clear leader, no hierarchy, and no headquarters. If and when a leader does emerge, that person has little power over others. The best that person can do to influence people is to lead by example.

Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the non-biological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Ray Kurzweil

In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition, and "exchange value" in the capitalist marketplace is increasingly replaced by "sharable value" on the Collaborative Commons.

Jeremy Rifkin

Why, then you might ask have the business plan and the raising of venture capital become seen as the centerpiece of entrepreneurial endeavor?

John Mullins, PhD

What we do today [. . .] is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Early market development efforts typically do not respond well to massive infusions of capital.

Geoffrey Moore

Today, if youre not disrupting yourself, someone else is; your fate is to be either the disrupter or the disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Salim Ismail

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun Tzu

It's a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can't, neither can anyone else.

David J. Collis, Michael G. Rukstad

In the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

Salim Ismail

Podcasts

Francisco Santolo on Radio Indigo: Scalabl Methodology Arrives in India

Francisco Santolo on Radio Continental: The Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur

Francisco Santolo in Liquid Times: A Different Way of Learning to Be An Entrepreneur

Leadership and Management

Don´t Demand Your Employees to Be Innovative and Agile

Don´t Demand Your Employees to Be Innovative and Agile

Companies demand their employees to become agile and innovative overnight without altering their course. Hiring a leading management consultancy, no matter how expensive it will be, only will make things worst....

Purpose and Career

Only You Can Determine Your Growth or Potential

Only You Can Determine Your Growth or Potential

Don't let anyone define your worth, determine your talent or declare your "potential". You and only you know your worth and what you can achieve!...

Future and Technology

Three Insights I have Gained in becoming Scalabl's Global Managing Director

Three Insights I have Gained in becoming Scalabl's Global Managing Director

Stay uncomfortable. Surround yourself with outstanding people. Nurture the seed of goodness....

Upcoming Online Courses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Upcoming Online Courses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Spanish

Starts on August 11

Upcoming Online Courses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

English

Starts on September 15

Upcoming Online Courses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Portuguese

Starts on November 10

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Press

The Future of Work Belongs to Entrepreneurs

The Future of Work Belongs to Entrepreneurs

Francisco Santolo foresees a future of unlimited possibility in which the individual will be more powerful than ever, with their impact multiplied by the communities which they are part of, linked to purpose, passion, vision, and values.

Helping an Argentinian Startup ¨Catch Fire¨

Helping an Argentinian Startup ¨Catch Fire¨

Michael Goldberg, Case Western Reserve University Professor, led a study trip to Argentina and in order to learn more about the entrepreneurial ecosystem his MBA students visited Scalabl. They were pleasantly surprised to learn that Francisco was using Steve Blank’s approach to support startups. One group of students worked with BrasUp, a Scalabl company that produces and sells a fire starter kit for the consumers grilling market.

Scalabl Arrives in Spain with Its Course for Entrepreneurs

Scalabl Arrives in Spain with Its Course for Entrepreneurs

Scalabl is growing globally and arrives, in December 2018, in Spain for the first time, driven by its fundamental purpose: to invest in the development of people and in the creation of a collaborative network where all members of the community contribute their talent in pursuit of the success of each individual and of the whole.

Purpose and Career

I Want to Quit

I Want to Quit

Returning from your dream vacation, or back at your desk after a great weekend, you might experience a brief moment of regret and doubt in which you start wondering why you have to return to the corporate routine....

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Innovation through Education

Innovation through Education

Thinking about something innovative connects us directly to the world of ideas. The first step is understanding that innovation goes way beyond: that no idea can turn out to be innovative without execution: that all those things that we fai...

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The End of Long-Term Planning

The End of Long-Term Planning

Novel Entrepreneurship and Innovation methodologies from the Tech and Startup world are leaping into Corporations, but they are still broadly misunderstood in both domains....

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